Circut's Edge
Circut's Edge is a 1990 interactive roleplaying game where you play as detective Marîd Audran in a city sector called "The Budayeen", that is set in the Middle East and based on New Orleans.
Circut's Edge is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Westwood Studios, released 31 December 1990 on DOS.
What Circut's Edge is
Circut's Edge is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1990. It was published by Infocom. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player assumes the role of Marîd Audran, a private detective. The game is set in "The Budayeen", an entertainment/criminal quarter in an unnamed city somewhere in the Middle East that is based on New Orleans. While running a series of errands/"business deals" for "Saied the Half-Hajj", a friend of Marîd's, Marîd is framed for the murder of a man named Kenji Carter. Although Marîd's influential patron Friedlander Bey clears him with the local police, Bey asks him to look into Carter's death. Doing so leads Marîd deep into the criminal underworld of the Budayeen.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Circut's Edge launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.
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